Biodiversity research and prospecting are long-standing activities taking place in a new legal and ethical environment. Following entry into force of the Conven

Analyses the methods of protection of biodiversity and related traditional knowledge in the international and comparative national intellectual property systems

How do we promote global economic development, while simultaneously preserving local biological and cultural diversity? This authoritative volume, written by le

This book reports the more policy-oriented results of the Biodiversity programme of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Beijer Institute. The programme brough

Discusses the suitability of mainstream forms of intellectual propety rights to indigenous knowledge and efforts to reconcile the Western concept of intellectua